THE ASSISTANCE OF JUPITER. THETIS ENTREATING JUPITER TO HONOUR ACHILLES. VULCAN. JUPITER. THE APOTHEOSIS OF HOMER. JUPITER SENDING THE EVIL DREAM TO AGAMEMNON. NEPTUNE. VENUS, DISGUISED, INVITING HELEN TO THE CHAMBER OF PARIS. VENUS PRESENTING HELEN TO PARIS. VENUS. Map, titled "Graeciae Antiquae". THE COUNCIL OF THE GODS. Map of the Plain of Troy. VENUS, WOUNDED IN THE HAND, CONDUCTED BY IRIS TO MARS. OTUS AND EPHIALTES HOLDING MARS CAPTIVE. DIOMED CASTING HIS SPEAR AT MARS. JUNO. HECTOR CHIDING PARIS. THE MEETING OF HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE. BOWS AND BOW CASE. IRIS. HECTOR AND AJAX SEPARATED BY THE HERALDS. GREEK AMPHORA--WINE VESSELS. JUNO AND MINERVA GOING TO ASSIST THE GREEKS. THE HOURS TAKING THE HORSES FROM JUNO'S CAR. THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES. PLUTO. THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLES. GREEK GALLEY. PROSERPINE. ACHILLES. DIOMED AND ULYSSES RETURNING WITH THE SPOILS OF RHESUS. THE DESCENT OF DISCORD. HERCULES. POLYDAMAS ADVISING HECTOR. GREEK ALTAR. NEPTUNE RISING FROM THE SEA. GREEK EARRINGS. SLEEP ESCAPING FROM THE WRATH OF JUPITER. GREEK SHIELD. BACCHUS. AJAX DEFENDING THE GREEK SHIPS. CASTOR AND POLLUX. Buckles. DIANA. SLEEP AND DEATH CONVEYING THE BODY OF SARPEDON TO LYCIA. ĆSCULAPIUS. FIGHT FOR THE BODY OF PATROCLUS. VULCAN FROM AN ANTIQUE GEM. THETIS ORDERING THE NEREIDS TO DESCEND INTO THE SEA. JUNO COMMANDING THE SUN TO SET. TRIPOD. THETIS AND EURYNOME RECEIVING THE INFANT VULCAN. VULCAN AND CHARIS RECEIVING THETIS. THETIS BRINGING THE ARMOUR TO ACHILLES. HERCULES. THE GODS DESCENDING TO BATTLE. CENTAUR. ACHILLES CONTENDING WITH THE RIVERS. THE BATH. ANDROMACHE FAINTING ON THE WALL. THE FUNERAL PILE OF PATROCLUS. CERES. HECTOR'S BODY AT THE CAR OF ACHILLES. THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS. IRIS ADVISES PRIAM TO OBTAIN THE BODY OF HECTOR. FUNERAL OF HECTOR. INTRODUCTION. Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction; since, from the ver